I also don't develop with or for Drupal.

I am a webdeveloper. Developing in Ruby, Rails. And using other tools.

And then, an offer to help set-up a startup in my own town, a WordPress hoster, came along. Last Wednesday we launched our MVP (yay, we launched!). And the custom parts of our infra are mostly Ruby.

We do dissect our WordPress sites. To find why the heck something is
(still) slow. And I oversee some WordPress plugin development: our
Hosting plugin that makes WordPress talk to our, yes, Ruby backends. But
I am not a WordPress Developer. And neither did I leave Drupal for
WordPress as some seem to think.

A webdeveloper at an online bookstore needs to know about the world of
selling books. And when you're a developer for an online
3D-printing-service you will visit many 3D-printing conferences. That is
what confused some folks: suddenly they see me tweeting about WordCamp
and assume I'm now building WordPress sites. It's merely one of the best
sides of being a software-developer: that you've get to know so many
diverse industries, because you need to capture that industry in
software. I've now been given the chance to capture the industry of
managing many, varying WordPress-sites in a fine piece of software.
Which is about all the WordPress development I'll be doing.

(And next up, are Chef, fine-tuning our Sinatra, Slim and Rails apps, building a nifty logging-platform, A RESTFull (probably composer-based) update-system for plugins, core and themes, a RESTFull Backup-service and a giant load of other infrastructural projects).

Doré Woodcut. Its only function is to make the layout look better. And these images are really nice themselves

About the author: Bèr Kessels is an experienced webdeveloper with a great passion for
technology and Open Source. A golden combination to implement that technology in a good and efficient
way. Follow @berkes on Twitter. Or read more about Bèr.